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  1. Re:kind of a crappy deal. on Google To Provide Free Internet For Public Housing Residents To All Fiber Markets · · Score: 1

    wasnt this kind of connectivity the sort of rate-limited and overpriced stuff the FCC railed against a few months ago?

    How is free "overpriced"?

  2. What? on Italian Court Throws Out TripAdvisor Fine Over Bad Reviews · · Score: 1

    No, the court said that you weren't liable because you stated up front that your reviews aren't reliable.

  3. Re:I can tell you what will happen ... on What Will Happen When Cascadia Subduction Zone Slips · · Score: 1

    At least one 5 gallon jug per person. We have 10 gallons per person, which is pathetically inadequate.

    Wait, what? If you should have a 5 gallon jug per person, how is 10 gallons per person "pathetically inadequate"? Isn't that twice as much as the minimum need?

  4. Maybe the stove isn't hot any more! on Nokia Wants To Make Phones Again · · Score: 1

    My burns have almost healed!

  5. Re:did they make enough to pay domain registration on Twitter Stock Jumps Nearly 8 Percent After Fake Report · · Score: 2

    Enquiring minds want to know ... whether it's a good stock picking strategy!?

    Buy a good stock, wait until it goes up, then sell it. If the stock doesn't go up, don't buy it.

  6. Re: This is just so typical of Republican-ruled... on Twitter Stock Jumps Nearly 8 Percent After Fake Report · · Score: 1

    "cishet"? I have no idea what that means.

  7. Re:Can anybody teach me how to register a website on Twitter Stock Jumps Nearly 8 Percent After Fake Report · · Score: 1

    By lying on the registration form and using stolen credit numbers to pay for it.

  8. Re:good! on Twitter Stock Jumps Nearly 8 Percent After Fake Report · · Score: 2

    Nah, it'll just convince corps that they have own every conceivable TLD with their name in it.

  9. Re:Encryption across radio waves is illegal? on Anonymizing Wi-Fi Device Project Unexpectedly Halted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which is presumably why they called it "Proxyham".

  10. Re:Looks great on the outside... on 65,000+ Land Rovers Recalled Due To Software Bug · · Score: 2

    I chalk it up to an issue of more money than sense. Or they might be rappers...

    ...but you repeat yourself.

  11. I am seriously considering... on 65,000+ Land Rovers Recalled Due To Software Bug · · Score: 1

    ...never buying a new car again. Only cars old enough not to have this crap.

  12. Re:mama mia on Satoru Iwata, Head of Nintendo, Has Died At 55 · · Score: 2

    It is also a saying of Mario's.

    More directly to the point, it is, in a lot of Mario games, what Mario says when he dies.

  13. Re:He had it treated in June 2014 on Satoru Iwata, Head of Nintendo, Has Died At 55 · · Score: 2

    Not true, really. It *is* true that many types of cancer are difficult to cure, and that telling a cure from a temporary remission is also difficult. But there are definitely plenty of people who have had all detectable cancer eradicated and it never reappears in their lifetime. They continue to be checked because, as stated above, it's difficult to tell a cure from a remission where the cancer remains in undetectable amounts.

  14. Re:thanks for the details on Satoru Iwata, Head of Nintendo, Has Died At 55 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Japanese quirk. They don't say cancer; the word is taboo.

  15. Re:Your data held hostage in Oracle cloud on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    Meh, while I'm sure Oracle would love the idea of holding your data hostage in the cloud, at the moment they're not insisting on it. As I understand the news article, customers are having to pay them for cloud services but don't actually have to use it.

  16. Deuterium or tritium on Boeing Patents an Engine Run By Laser-Generated Fusion Explosions · · Score: 1

    The article says the patent specifies deuterium or tritium. Only if the engine uses tritium will there be any radioactive fuel to be spread.

  17. Re:Unchanging UIs? Not just for old people on How Bad User Interfaces Can Ruin Lives · · Score: 1

    And you know how you get to be able to ride the horse and rope your cattle?

    BY NOT CHANGING THE DAMN INTERFACE EVERY TWO WEEKS!

  18. Re:Want more donations for a nonprofit? on Calling All Data Do-Gooders · · Score: 1

    The defenders of the Alamo died to the last man, but in the end, they won, didn't they? Texas got its independence and then joined the US, just like they'd wanted.

  19. Re:Not on /. on Technology and the End of Lying · · Score: 1

    Also, there's the implicit assumption that all arguments can be resolved by "facts."

    More importantly, there's the implicit assumption that these facts will always be available in correct and undistorted form from Google, which is so wrong-headed I can't even begin. Slanting Google to their worldview is a hobby (or even a business) for some people.

  20. Just like you can Google a fact to end an argument on Technology and the End of Lying · · Score: 2

    Okay, pretty much stopped reading at that point. The fact is that it's as easy to propagate lies through the Internet as it is truth.

  21. Re:Wow ... on Microsoft To Cut 7,800 More Jobs, Take $7.6 Billion Writedown On Nokia · · Score: 1

    Bingo. If you implement this strategy successfully, you can make a lot of money, but you've got better odds in Vegas.

  22. Re:A long time coming... on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    It's gone up because it was going up--people wanted stocks that had been steadily racking up large gains. Now that it's not going up anymore it's tough to see where the floor might be. That's how a bubble works.

  23. Re:A long time coming... on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    but the country overall has a lot of assets, such as empty apartment buildings, etc.,

    You do realize that an apartment building is utterly worthless if you can't get paying tenants for it, don't you?

  24. Re:Most stock markets ... on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't identifying an overpriced craze. This isn't hard if you look at it with a clear eye. The problem is figuring out when the bubble will pop. If you try to sell short too early, you'll be swimming against the tide and the market will crush you.

  25. Re:Most stock markets ... on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    Lately this seems to be how stock markets work.

    "Lately"? There's a book I'd like to recommend to your attention: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, which discusses this phenomenon in excellent detail. It was first published in 1841.